North Korea’s nuclear weapons might be able to reach the U.S., Egypt has no family planning policy despite its surging birthrate and Japan is set to build its first overseas nuclear plant since the Fukushima meltdown of 2011
Sri Lanka intensifies its crackdown on dissenters, the U.K. decides to stop all direct aid to South Africa by 2015 and China’s manufacturing sector has slowed
Cellphones are polluting the world and the Irish coalition government is expected to sign off on draft legislation that will lead to limited abortion in the republic
Venezuela’s electoral body will audit the votes cast in the presidential election, almost 5 million people live in New Delhi’s illegal settlements and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is traveling to Russia
NGOs say cost-cutting by Western fashion retailers led to the factory disaster in Bangladesh, Russia uses child adoption as a bargaining tool with Ireland’s parliament, and the president of Serbia has apologized for the …
Media freedom is declining in Bulgaria, China leads the world in cyber espionage and public confidence in the European Union has fallen to a record low in its six biggest countries
France approves a same-sex marriage bill, the Vietnamese Communist Party struggles with growing dissent and China is planning to build more aircraft carriers
Paraguay’s new president needs to tackle the country’s poverty, continued hikes in food prices could destabilize Iran before its presidential election and North Korea has rejected U.S. calls to show it’s serious about abandoning …
A record number of civil war victims are found in Syria, Denmark tries to lean its citizens off generous government benefits and a Chinese official has called for the country’s 100 million religious believers to abandon their …
A business boom in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif also fuels the area’s sex trade, Japan asks why young judo practitioners are dying and the E.U. is set to lift all sanctions on Burma
A new World Bank report is released on sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth, Sunni candidates in Iraq are being assassinated ahead of the country’s elections, and a senior Syrian government minister has alleged that Britain and …
Justin Trudeau wins a landslide victory to lead Canada’s opposition Liberal Party, Mayan men and women are testifying in the genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, and Nicolas Maduro, the hand-picked heir …
China pulls Quentin Tarantino’s film ‘Django Unchained’ on its opening day citing “technical problems,” Brazil’s new labor equality law for domestic servants could put them out of a job, and the hole in Cyprus’s finances is …
